Saturday, January 30, 2010

Human Rights Violations against North Koreans

A human rights activists enacts a North Korean asylum-seeker tied up with ropes during a rally denouncing alleged famine and human rights violations against North Koreans, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Thousands of North Koreans have fled their communist homeland to escape hunger and harsh political oppression in recent years, with many taking a long journey through the lands of China to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries on their way to seek asylum with a great risk of getting repatriated if they were ever caught by Chinese authorities.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Children look at a human rights activists Olivier Courapied of France, wearing North Korean soldier's uniform, aims a mock North Korean asylum-seeker tied up with ropes during a rally denouncing alleged famine and human rights violations against North Koreans, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Thousands of North Koreans have fled their communist homeland to escape hunger and harsh political oppression in recent years, with many taking a long journey through the lands of China to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries on their way to seek asylum with a great risk of getting repatriated if they were ever caught by Chinese authorities. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A human rights activist Olivier Courapied of France, wearing North Korean soldier's uniform, aims a mock North Korean asylum-seeker tied up with ropes during a rally denouncing alleged famine and human rights violations against North Koreans, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Thousands of North Koreans have fled their communist homeland to escape hunger and harsh political oppression in recent years, with many taking a long journey through the lands of China to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries on their way to seek asylum with a great risk of getting repatriated if they were ever caught by Chinese authorities. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)